Lidl dried dog food anyone?

rachd03

My dog has had lidls dried food before and she loved it. normally she is a fussy madam, only eating bakers dried but we wanted to try something else as we heard bakers makes moulting worse.

foreign_correspondent

Bakers is full of colourings - I always look for these in dog food and avoid them - I do remember looking at lidl's and it didn't have any additional colours, which is good!

MaximumImpact

that lidl stuff will be alot cheaper but the contents are poor...like the scrapings off the factory floor!

Can I ask how you know that??? Is this an assumption based on the brand name Lidls or do you work for the company that makes it for them??

FYI Wainwrights is expensive not cheap and is only slightly less costwise than JWB. My dogs were on this as puppies and it was £34.99 a bag. JWB was £38.99 a bag and we used 3 bags a month.

suki1964

MaximumImpact wrote: »

Can I ask how you know that??? Is this an assumption based on the brand name Lidls or do you work for the company that makes it for them??

FYI Wainwrights is expensive not cheap and is only slightly less costwise than JWB. My dogs were on this as puppies and it was £34.99 a bag. JWB was £38.99 a bag and we used 3 bags a month.

Whilst I would shy away from condemming any pet food as we all know there is a lot of money spent in the research of pet food, some food would appear to be better then others.

For myself Lidls wouldnt be my first choice because the protein comes from "meat and animal derivatives 4% beef", which means it doesnt need to be what we humans would class as meat - rather mechanically extracted and the bits of animal not sold for human consumption. And in this case only 4% of the meat content is from a cow - the rest could be from horse or anything

(I also have problems about feeding any of my family any " meat" that is mechanically recovered)

You really do need a degree in product labelling to understand what it is you are buying sometimes - its a nightmare

MaximumImpact

For myself Lidls wouldnt be my first choice because the protein comes from "meat and animal derivatives 4% beef", which means it doesnt need to be what we humans would class as meat - rather mechanically extracted and the bits of animal not sold for human consumption. And in this case only 4% of the meat content is from a cow - the rest could be from horse or anything

But the rest of the meat could easily be chicken, duck, rabbit or anything else so you are right about the labelling aspect. I just would like the poster to justify her ''sweepings off the floor'' comment as I am quite concerned if this is the case and will write to Lidls head office as I have given my dogs feed from them in the past.

foreign_correspondent

Well, I eat Lidl food and I am still alive, so I am sure their dog food will be fine... of course, you can spend more, but to be honest, having seen what dogs will eat, gven half a chance, I am not too worried that the meat may not be the best cuts, or could be horse meat (I have eaten horse - unintentionally - and it was actually very tasty!)

I am also not convinced by the idea that meat % age and cereal content is really an important factor in choosing food, when some very long lived dogs have been fed on an exclusively vegatarian diets!

suki1964

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

Well, I eat Lidl food and I am still alive, so I am sure their dog food will be fine... of course, you can spend more, but to be honest, having seen what dogs will eat, gven half a chance, I am not too worried that the meat may not be the best cuts, or could be horse meat (I have eaten horse - unintentionally - and it was actually very tasty!)

I am also not convinced by the idea that meat % age and cereal content is really an important factor in choosing food, when some very long lived dogs have been fed on an exclusively vegatarian diets!

Totally agree, I think I have even posted on here that I think we do sometimes humanise our dogs too much , to the extent that we think they need the same diet as ourselves - proteins, carbs etc - prolly not true at all.

I too have eaten horse and found it to be very nice btw

BUT I do have huge issues around food production and how food is sold to us. I want to know where my meat (for human consumption) has come from and although I know I cant do that for my dog as I have chosen to feed kibble, I like to know that the meat content is from human grade meat and in the case of arden grange - organic

MaximumImpact

Well FC/Suki1984 ..I am struggling to see how dogs survived before premium dog food came along???

I mean scraps from the table, foraging for food, living in the wild. They must have all had very short, starving lives before human came along and sorted them out a proper healthy balanced diet in a bag!!

poppyolivia

MaximumImpact wrote: »

Can I ask how you know that??? Is this an assumption based on the brand name Lidls or do you work for the company that makes it for them??

FYI Wainwrights is expensive not cheap and is only slightly less costwise than JWB. My dogs were on this as puppies and it was £34.99 a bag. JWB was £38.99 a bag and we used 3 bags a month.

Like I said my sister is obsessed and the whole family has been brain washed!!:o

heres a wee link for you about whats in some of these dog foods...

http://www.k9capers.com/feature-nutrition_in_pet_foods.asp

and a bit from it...

Meat and Animal Derivatives or Animal By-Products
Most dog and cat foods will use meat and animal derivatives as their only source of animal protein. These consist of heads, feet, guts, lungs, feathers, hair, wool and unborn eggs.


yummy!;)

foreign_correspondent

Wagg also only use human grade meat and it is cheap as chips!! (about a tenner for 15kg!)

"We don’t use any artificial colours or flavours in our pet food, the meat in our dog food is human food grade and, where possible, we source our raw materials locally or nationally, within the UK."

http://www.waggfoods.co.uk/about_wagg.aspx